> Did they decide to reinvent all the wheels badly just because someone at Google was bored? If I had to guess, it would be that (bored), or perhaps trying to

> Did they decide to reinvent all the wheels badly just because someone at Google was bored? If I had to guess, it would be that (bored), or perhaps trying to specifically avoid existing patents/copyrights/etc by showing that they did completely reinvent the wheel instead of copying from existing "common knowledge"? I'm no lawyer though, especially not a patent lawyer, so I could be way off the mark...